John Hughes

Few people can say that they own a mansion worth more than $4 million. Fewer still can say they own two mansions in that pricing stratosphere.

And yet, that’s exactly the situation in which Nancy Hughes, the widow of celebrated filmmaker and Northbrook native John Hughes, finds herself. For more than a year, Hughes has had her six-bedroom, 7,445-square-foot English country-style house in east Lake Forest on the market for $4.49 million.

Now, as Elite Street exclusively can reveal, Hughes was the mystery buyer of a $12 million mansion on Lake Michigan in Lake Forest early last year. Although Hughes purchased the 12,562-square-foot mansion and its 3.4-acre property through an...

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